Don't Add to the Fan Stereotype

Sports fans (particularly those who carry a passion for their home town sports team) are often looked at as offbeat, colorful, and for lack of a better term, crazy. Generally, there behavior would never be allowed in other venues. And as weird as others might find it, it is rarely questioned and or challenged. I mean where else can a grown man over 40 and painfully out of shape be allowed to dress up ( with 5 of his other buddies who share the same body traits) in full body and face paint and yell from there seats while holding a John 3:16 sign. You're not going to find that at the opera. The wave isn't going to break out during a Broadway show. And no one's going to tailgate at then movie theaters. No one has educated them, and no one's about to start now. I get it. They're just different. But I don't get Mr. Packer fan and his brother ( Adam and Eric Rolfson) who decide to hold a protest about the Packers reinstating back Brett Favre. I understand them trying to profit off of this piece of absurdness by selling t-shirts and bumper stickers at their website www.bringbackbrettfavre.com. After all, with this struggling economy, you have to be on the look out for potential money makers. But calling random people from the Green Bay white pages. Holding rallies every Sunday at Lambeau field until Favre returns. It's ridiculous. Sports rallies are ridiculous...especially if you are a man with a job. I don't care if you are protesting with PITA against Michael Vick returning to the NFL, it's absurd. You have about as much credibility as someone walking around Broward County Jail with a "Free Bobbi Brown" sign (which has taken place). I realize Sports Fan will probably never read The ESPN Guide to Psycho Fan Behavior, which can be purchased at my store website, as this would imply reading something other than a box score or your fantasy sheets. So here are the acceptable rules for holding sports rallies: 1. You're trying to meet women. 2. You're trying to make money. 3. You're trying to do both 1 and 2 at the same time. 4. You're the Memphis Grizzlies-because they need all of the publicity they can get. For more of my thoughts visit www.thesportsrotation.squarespace.com